It was the best title that I could come up with for my excursion to watch Denny Brauer’s seminar at Warner Dock on Saturday.  I will give the nod to my buddy Josh’s blog title (Schooled by Denny Brauer).  Speaking of which, I really miss that TV show, but I guess it did not get watched as much as “Beat Charlie Moore” and now we are stuck with the Mad Fisherman, rather then intelligent fishing programming like “Schooled by Denny Brauer” was.

Denny’s seminar focused mainly on flipping and picthing techniques which are his bread and butter, that is how he won his Classic Title and multiple AOY titles as well.  Overall, some of it was basic in my mind, some stuff reinforced my thoughts on how I fish shallow cover and I did pick up a few pointers as well, so all in all, worth the drive.  Heck, what else was I going to do when it was 15 degrees outside???

Of course, Denny plugged his signature Strike King Jig & Chunks, talked about the new Rage baits.  Mentioned that he will have some new signature rods coming out with American RodSmiths, and probably one of the cooler things was his new Ardent F500 flipping and pitching reel.  It has some unique things:
No Drag Adjustment, preset to 22.5lbs
Super Narrow Spool, only about 60 yards of Line
No level wind, because of skinny spool

According to Denny, they will be available in about a month or so, so watch for them here.Rich
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